"Don't point your finger in my face, or I'll bite" — "Well, bite!" And she bit. A Belarusian man jailed for severely beating his wife in Russia

In Ivanovo, Russia, Belarusian citizen Pavel Siarheyeu was imprisoned. He was found guilty of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm to his wife, Liubou. Siarheyeu was given 5 years, but taking into account previous unserved sentences, the final term amounted to 7 years in a strict regime penal colony.

The conflict between Pavel and Liubou arose at home when they were drinking vodka. At one point, Pavel started pointing his finger in the woman's face. She warned that she would bite him if he didn't stop. "Well, bite!" the man replied. And Liubou indeed bit his left pinky finger.

After the bite, Pavel became enraged and attacked his wife. First, he struck her three times with his hand in the face, in the nose, causing Liubou to fall to the ground. And then he added five more kicks to her body and one kick to her head.

As a result, the woman suffered a broken nose, as well as fractures of two ribs on the left side.

The victim's aunt reported the incident to the police — Liubou's daughter called her and asked her to call the police, as she was afraid to call herself. The daughter herself called an ambulance when her mother, already at home, complained that she couldn't breathe, and blood appeared on her face. At the hospital, the woman had a drain placed in her chest to pump out blood that had collected in her lung, and she underwent a course of inpatient treatment.

In court, Pavel partially admitted his guilt: he confirmed that he punched his wife in the face after the bite, but denied kicking her, claiming that the woman allegedly stumbled over the threshold and fell herself. But he was not believed.

The term turned out to be particularly harsh due to Pavel's past. Previously, he had already been convicted of intentionally causing grievous bodily harm which, through negligence, resulted in the death of a person — he was then given almost 12 years in a penal colony, from which he was released on parole. This unserved conviction became the basis for recognizing a dangerous recidivism in his actions. In addition, at the time of the new sentence, he had not yet served sentences in two other cases — for the use of violence against a government official (3 years 4 months imprisonment) and for hooliganism (replaced by 3 years of forced labor). Partially combining the new sentence with these two unserved terms, the court determined the final 7 years.

Siarheyeu was allowed to be at home before the trial, but after the verdict was pronounced, he was taken into custody.

According to a relative, Pavel had raised his hand against Liubou many times before: she would write statements to the police but later withdraw them when her husband apologized.

At the investigation stage, Liubou demanded about $12,000 from her husband as compensation for moral damages, but in court, she withdrew this claim. In his final word, Pavel once again apologized to his wife, and she accepted it — however, her children could not forgive the man.

• 1
• 0
• 0
• 1
• 0
• 0
• 2
• 0